mahogany
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Martin and Co. guitar, a seamless blend of spruce, mahogany, celluloid, ebony and mother-of-pearl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
He is not sitting at a workbench but at a mahogany table polished to a fare-thee-well and reflecting the sitter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Among the answers: a small ink-stained mahogany desk, an antique light bulb, a brown leather flight suit and a baseball jersey.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The court wasn't one of those historic rooms with lots of mahogany and Victorian furnishings.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Only this room has framed diplomas on the walls and a bowl of jelly beans on a big mahogany desk.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Some intense blooms tint the ocean in swirling blues, mahoganies or “red tides” visible from space—psychedelic watercolors of microscopic life on a macroscale.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2022
The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder.
From Time Magazine Archive
Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make up for the dearth of propane gas and kerosene, peasants have slashed away at trees, even mangoes, windbreaks and the mahoganies that shade the coffee crop.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bread-fruit tree with its broad, scalloped leaves, the showy star-apple, glossy green above deep gold below, mahoganies, oranges, and bananas, all seem to grow wild.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
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